Also showing, April 7

Thursday Till Sunday; The Expatriate; All Things to All Men; Papadopoulos & Sons; Home; The Odd Life of Timothy Green; Dark Skies

Thursday Till Sunday12A, 96 mins
Dominga Sotomayor’s film, the first feature by this Chilean writer/director,
takes us on a long car journey during which a 10-year-old girl (Santi
Ahumada) in the back seat vaguely realises that her parents, in the front,
are breaking up. The camera captures well the oppressiveness and torpor of a
road trip in a family-filled vehicle, and not every viewer will feel that
the film’s enigmatic drama is sufficient reward for enduring such a
gruelling atmosphere. Yet there are many good scenes along the way: the
girl’s anxious half-understanding of what’s going on is deftly conveyed.